Print Length: 192 pages

Publisher: VIZ Media: SHONEN JUMP; 1st edition (July 15, 2011)

Publication Date: July 15, 2011

Language: English

Me personally and my girlfriend are fans of Dragonball Z ., and were hoping to find the Dragonball Manga collection to collect. After some research (so you don't have to do it! ) we found this one as the best, and it delivered! Much bigger than I expected and the web pages are thick enough and the art is high quality as well. That has a bendable cover but sturdy for positive, not flimsy.

There's in total FIVE parts to this series, each containing 3 issues. Which is BEST in my opinion - doesn't take as much space. If you're looking to gather the mangas than this one is 100% the right get started with - other issues tend to be smaller and more cheap. Price (11-15 dollars) is excellent as well and worth it., Delivery was fast and product was in great condition. The book itself is a must-have for any Dragon Ball fan and has lots of great illustrations! The main focus is on the early adventurous of Goku & co. so if you are searching for illustrations that revolve more around Z this might make you wanting. I personally think it's a great conjunction with the manga's i used to read as a kid and am very happy with this purchase. It smells a little funny but a possibility too strong (I assume its the paper it is printed on)., after i was younger i used to watch DBZ every solitary day. then ?nternet site expanded up i sort of lost interest in it. then i saw a monster ball super episode on a tv set channel called Toonami. and well i suddenly remembered all the forms of goku and the hilarious characters and i coudnt let go. i got so enthusiastic about secs tht i started babbling about it all night! i looked everywhere for episodes but al i discovered early previews and reactions. i got angry and proceeded to go in my room. i then remembered that i used to have a DBZ volume wrtten by Toriyama. i exploded and grabbed my kindle and started searching everywhere and it also couldnt take me long to find it. so i luv dragon ball series an i luv toriyama and i also luv super saiyan!!!! btw that reminds myself why are you still reading this review??! if oughout luv everything dragon basketball then u should buy this guide without a second thought!!!! Awesomeness. pure Awesomeness is contained within!!!! byeeeeeee ( plus check my spelling and grammar. i stink at writing. and also sory for the long review. i couldnt resist expressing my feelings for a Legendary Guide like this): ): ): ): ) <:::::::::::::::::: |===o a sword for oughout toriyama, i dont really want to spoil too much so i only added one image lol the merchandise is super high quality and came in really quick! even though im not finished with reading the series i just had to get this! the art is fantastic and ive developed a great liking towards akira toriyama's art style. it gives me such a nice feeling which whole book seems fantastic! i cant wait to undergo it completely, Beautiful artwork and really wonderful if you are a Dragon Ball fan. My earliest is a fan and an artist and we have wonderful conversations about the artwork and the anime while paging through this book. An excellent present for anime fans, artist, or simply a Dragon Golf ball fan. Love it!!, The first volume of the Dragon Ball 3-in-1 releases combines the first three volumes of the Dragon Ball manga into one edition. In addition to putting three volumes into one book, the physical size of the book has also increased. It's also interesting to note that roughly the first forty pages of the first volume and about 20 pages of the second volume are printed in color. In the instances, the early color pages have a lot of color, but by the finish of the color section, the amount of color being used is reduced. At the back of the volume, there is a name page gallery that includes the title pages for the person chapters as they made an appearance in their original serialization in Weekly Shonen Leap magazine. There are also selected questions and remarks from Japanese readers in the first three volumes of the original Dragon Ball manga, and the author notes from the first three volumes.

For the most part, the tale from the anime series follows the first 3 volumes of the manga rather closely; the big exception is Pilaf and his cronies, because they look much earlier in the anime than they do in the manga. This particular 3-in-1 edition covers the start of the storyplot through Kuririn's battle with Bacterian at the Tenkaihci Tournament. It should also be noted that the English adaptation of the manga uses a combo of the original Japanese titles for the characters which includes of the renaming from the English dub of the anime. In some respects, I wish there had been more consistency when it came to using either all of the Japanese names or all of the English names when the interpretation for the English version of the manga was done.

Something I noticed while reading this volume is that for Dragon Ball, Toriyama tended to utilize more panels per page than the average manga that I have read. Because of this, I found which it took me a little longer to learn this omnibus edition of Dragon Ball than they have for me to read the omnibus editions of the Inuyasha manga series. When it comes to the art, you can definitely see Toriyama's touch; if you have familiarity with Toriyama's work, then you could see all of the "hallmark Toriyama look" in this manga volume. Also, as I read this volume, I noticed that Toriyama really appeared to like utilizing "sound effects" in his panels when it's appropriate. For a shonen series, I'm actually nicely surprised to see that Toriyama doesn't rely too much on the "busy panel" tricks to express the battle sequences.

Our husband and I purchased the copy of the Dragon Ball 3-in-1 manga i read to write this review., Everything you'd want to see from this guy. I never browse the manga, so it's all newish stuff to myself. You get really strong, colorful poster work filling up pages as well as smaller-scale doodles and figures. It's all professional work though - don't expect rough or questionable pieces. Overall it's a lovely book that breathes life into my work desk and gets the creative juices flowin!